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About Inferencing | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Inferencing
Inferencing, or machine reasoning has a slightly unsavoury reputation perhaps stemming from the failure of Strong AI and its association with science fiction. This is a bit unfortunate and it could be argued that it has led Semantic Web technologies to be underdeveloped.With…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Multiversa
While the universum is the ultimate reference cited for the validity of any statement in the transcendental path, the Multiversa is entailed by the parenthetic path, and implies that a multiplicity of realities can be brought forth depending only on the distinctions of the…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Beyond simple assertions and their provenance
The micropublication approach goes beyond statements and their provenance, proposing a richer model in order to account for a more complete and broadly useful view of scientific argument and evidence, beyond that of simple assertions, or assertions supported only by literature…
From minimal statements to full evidence graphs
Micropublications permit scientific claims to be formulated minimally as any statement with an attribution (basic provenance), and maximally as entire knowledge-bases with extensive evidence graphs. Thus micropublications in their minimal form subsume or encompass…
The goal of an argument is to induce belief
Micropublications represent scientific arguments. The goal of an argument is to induce belief [44]. An argument (therefore a micropublication) argues a principal claim, with statements and/or evidence deployed to support it. Its support may also include contrary statements or…
Limitations of statement-based models
Statement-based models have been proposed as mechanisms for publishing key facts asserted in the scientific literature or in curated databases in a machine processable form. Examples include: Biological Expression Language (BEL) statements [18]; SWAN, a model for claims and…
Rdf Primer
Reifying a statement is not asserting it
Note that asserting the reification is not the same as asserting the original statement, and neither implies the other. That is, when someone says that John said something about the weight of a tent, they are not making a statement about the weight of a tent themselves, they…
URIrefs make shared vocabularies possible
Using URIrefs as subjects, predicates, and objects in RDF statements supports the development and use of shared vocabularies on the Web, since people can discover and begin using vocabularies already used by others to describe things, reflecting a shared understanding of those…
RDF statements: subject, predicate, object
RDF is based on the idea that the things being described have properties which have values, and that resources can be described by making statements, similar to those above, that specify those properties and values. RDF uses a particular terminology for talking about the…
Naming statements happens outside RDF
RDF does not provide a built-in way of indicating how a URIref like exproducts:triple12345 is associated with a particular statement or graph, any more than it provides a built-in way of indicating how a URIref like exproducts:item10245 is associated with an actual tent…
A vocabulary is a set of URIrefs
Since RDF uses URIrefs instead of words to name things in statements, RDF refers to a set of URIrefs (particularly a set intended for a specific purpose) as a vocabulary. Often, the URIrefs in such vocabularies are organized so that they can be represented as a set of QNames…
Vocabularies for types, properties and values
However, in addition to the basic techniques for describing things using RDF statements discussed so far, it should be clear that people or organizations also need a way to describe the vocabularies (terms) they intend to use in those statements, specifically, vocabularies for…
The graph matters, not the notation
objects in RDF statements may be either URIrefs, or constant values (called literals) represented by character strings, in order to represent certain kinds of property values. Literals may not be used as subjects or predicates in RDF statements. [...] So, for example…
Reification and the reification quad
RDF applications sometimes need to describe other RDF statements using RDF, for instance, to record information about when statements were made, who made them, or other similar information (this is sometimes referred to as "provenance" information). [...] RDF provides a…
Communities need their own vocabularies
RDF provides a way to express simple statements about resources, using named properties and values. However, RDF user communities also need the ability to define the vocabularies (terms) they intend to use in those statements, specifically, to indicate that they are describing…
Why properties are named with URIrefs
RDF uses URIrefs as predicates in RDF statements. That is, rather than using character strings (or words) such as "creator" or "name" to identify properties, RDF uses URIrefs. Using URIrefs to identify properties is important for a number of reasons. First, it distinguishes the…
Resource Description Framework - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Reification, contexts and named graphs
The body of knowledge modeled by a collection of statements may be subjected to reification, in which each statement (that is each triple subject-predicate-object altogether) is assigned a URI and treated as a resource about which additional statements can be made, as in "Jane…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
All knowledge is in terms of contrasts
Yet metaphysics, like philosophy as a whole, is not something which can simply be cured or abandoned, as if it were an intellectual disease. The most antimeta-physical philosophers have, in fact, a tacit metaphysics of their own, which lurks behind the assertion that all…